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Acknowledgments

We are most grateful to Captain I. Hashigaya and Chief Engineer H. Sakata of T/V Hokuto for their assistance in the sampling program. Grateful thanks are also given to J. T. Williams and S. J. Raredon (USNM) for specimen loans, G. S. Hardy (Ngunguru, New Zealand) for his critical reading of the manuscript and I. Sakamoto (Tokai University) for information on the submarine topography of Suruga Trough. This study was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Promotion of Scientific Research (C) (no. 25450280) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan to the third author.

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